Review an adviser or representative remuneration arrangement for conflicted remuneration
Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- From the remuneration agreements, commission schedules, bonus and incentive plans and product arrangements, list every benefit paid or offered to advisers or representatives, its trigger and calculation, and the product or advice it relates to, marking benefits that may be volume-based or could reasonably influence advice.
- What the lawyer must review
- The lawyer decides whether each benefit is conflicted or otherwise banned remuneration or falls within an exception, advises on restructuring, and checks whether past payments raise a breach-reporting obligation.
- Written for / version
- US
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Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | From the remuneration agreements, commission schedules, bonus and incentive plans and product arrangements, list every benefit paid or offered to advisers or representatives, its trigger and calculation, and the product or advice it relates to, marking benefits that may be volume-based or could reasonably influence advice. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- Confirm client and complaint records go only into a tool the licensee has approved for customer data, and that outputs disclose no client information beyond what the recipient needs.
- Check every benefit against the source agreement and the payment records.
- Confirm which exceptions are relied on and why.
- Consider breach reporting for past payments before advising.
Forms and precedents for this task
| Form or precedent | Kind | AI use | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Review a benefit against the conflicted remuneration provisions that were opened | Checklist | AI use Yellow | Worksheet for a benefit against sections 963A, 963E and 963J of the Corporations Act 2001. |
Signed-in accounts can read the full text of each one. All precedents.
Sources
These are suggested working checks. Confirm the required checking with the responsible lawyer before work starts; the checking approach does not establish permission to use AI.